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Fashion footwear
I needed a new pair of trainers as my old ones were getting pretty thin on the tread after a decade or so...
I've been starting up aerobics classes at the gym after a gap of five years or so. Several reasons. I need to get more exercise to see if I can improve the asthma and I need to strengthen my arm muscles to help the RSI.
I went into Poole hunting trainers. I knew what I wasn't looking for. One woman in my class had a new pair, reduced to £90 from £140!
Cheep and cheerful - that's me. However, my one big criterion when it comes to footwear of any kind is that it must fit properly. You'd think that would be easy, but I've worn properly fitting shoes all my life, and the result is that I haven't squashed my toes and thus I have wider feet across the toe than most women.
Trainers don't seem to come in width fittings, you just have to keep on trying different styles until you find one that happens to be the right shape. I'm not fussy: I tried men's trainers, women's trainers, size 6, 7,8 trainers. I tried ones that were sold as gym wear and ones that were not.
Finally, after trying on virtaully every pair in three different shops, I found a pair that were supposedly men's trainers for hiking. With 10 mins to spare before I had to catch the bus back to teach a math lesson, I tried them and they fitted!
And they were only a tenner.
And they worked great in this morning's awrobics class. Comfy and flexible and just right.
Stuff fashion.
I've been starting up aerobics classes at the gym after a gap of five years or so. Several reasons. I need to get more exercise to see if I can improve the asthma and I need to strengthen my arm muscles to help the RSI.
I went into Poole hunting trainers. I knew what I wasn't looking for. One woman in my class had a new pair, reduced to £90 from £140!
Cheep and cheerful - that's me. However, my one big criterion when it comes to footwear of any kind is that it must fit properly. You'd think that would be easy, but I've worn properly fitting shoes all my life, and the result is that I haven't squashed my toes and thus I have wider feet across the toe than most women.
Trainers don't seem to come in width fittings, you just have to keep on trying different styles until you find one that happens to be the right shape. I'm not fussy: I tried men's trainers, women's trainers, size 6, 7,8 trainers. I tried ones that were sold as gym wear and ones that were not.
Finally, after trying on virtaully every pair in three different shops, I found a pair that were supposedly men's trainers for hiking. With 10 mins to spare before I had to catch the bus back to teach a math lesson, I tried them and they fitted!
And they were only a tenner.
And they worked great in this morning's awrobics class. Comfy and flexible and just right.
Stuff fashion.
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As far as paying extra for a brand name goes, I feel they should pay ME to promote their product.
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A similar thing happened with a particular kind of walking shoe I bought years ago, probably the most comfortable shoes I've ever worn - they went out of fashion and I can't find anything remotely similar now!
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Width fittings ...
And the New Balance were pretty much all black (I'd gone to Sydney in the height of Australian summer, so I took work shoes and sandals, and then it was UK summer weather (18-22 centigrade and raining) so I needed something to "tourist" in.)
They lasted for a couple of years of nearly continuous wear until the soles basically wore smooth (I still have them somewhere but they are trecherous in the rain!) ... and I would buy them again like a shot! Something a fair bit like these (http://www.newbalance.co.uk/2005/Product/Walk-M574BK.shtml) though only two widths are shown for this particular model ... women's walking shoes are available on the same site.
I have several pairs of "sandals" (the kind with the manmade sole and the click buckle (fastex) fastenings, what I think of as running sandals.) which I've picked up cheap when I've been to the US (plus one expensive pair of Rock sandals c.£35 I bought in Sidmouth which lasted for ages and were very comfortable but then the straps pulled up through the sole material ... I keep hoping they can be repaired which is why I haven't thrown them away yet)
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